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JJEHL wrote:OK. Do you have a documentation to describe the URDF plugin ? Or a least something to explain where is the source code and how it works ?

Hi JJEHL

Have you found the bug by chance?

I took a look at the code in the past very quickly but I did not find the problem.

Hi, I checked also with others URDF files and there is the same problem: The visual meshes are merged with the collision ones. In older versions of V-REP the meshes are imported correctly (I tried V-REP_PRO_EDU_V3_1_2_64_Linux with PLUGIN_VERSION 4). Probably is due to something introduced in the ne...

Hi,

This function was added from V-REP V3.2.3 (November 24th 2015).
See http://www.coppeliarobotics.com/helpFil ... .htm#3.3.0.
Try to download a newer version.

I checked more deeply into the problem and I found out this: It seems that the visual meshes are strange because they are actually a combination of the visual and collision meshes. This is the URDF file of the HeadRollLink (The complete URDF and meshes are here: https://github.com/ros-aldebaran/rome...

Thanks for the answer!

I have already tried to check the option "Convex decompose non-convex collision links" but the result is the same.
To solve this I have just imported the meshes with the Collada importer and substitute them with the original.

Hi, I am importing the URDF model of ROMEO in V-REP using the plugin. I was wondering why the meshes .DAE (the visual meshes) look better if I import them with the "Collada importer/exporter plugin". The visual meshes of the torso are imported as .dae: <link name="torso"> <inerti...

Hi, I would like to import the model URDF of Romeo in V-Rep (https://github.com/laas/romeo/tree/master/romeo_description). The package contains the URDF file and the meshes. In order to import the meshes correctly, I had to change all the paths deleting "romeo_description/" : from <mesh fi...